Spirits of the Shrines

Collective Yapese spirit-class, entered as a single deity-class figure per the directive (spirit-classes map to deity/demigod). Native terms: kan ('spirit/god') and taliw (the shrine and, by extension, its spirits). Gloss 'Spirits of the Shrines'. Sex recorded as unknown because the class spans male land-spirits and female sea-spirits.

Domains

• ancestral and place spirits

Powers

• oversees human conduct of land and sea

Sources

• Müller, W. (1917). Yap. Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910, II.B.2, Friederichsen, Hamburg
• Lingenfelter, S.G. (1975). Yap: Political Leadership and Culture Change in an Island Society. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu